The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor is a national weekly print newspaper published by the Christian Science Publishing Society and owned by the First Church of Christ, Scientist. The paper was a daily until March, 2009; currently the website is updated daily. First published in 1908, the Christian Science Monitor is headquartered in Boston, Mass.The average age of a Christian Science Monitor reader is 59, and 61 percent of the readers are women. The average household income of the newspapers readers is just under $94,000; over 72 percent have a four-year college degree and more than 40 percent have a post-graduate degree. It covers national and international news. The Christian Science Monitor is not a religious paper. The Christian Science Monitor has won seven Pulitzer Prizes since 1950. The most recent was in 2002 for an editorial cartoon. In 2006, one of the paper's freelance reporters, Jill Carroll was kidnapped in Iraq. She was released after 82 days. The paper has also won other awards, including the National Headliner Award, National Society of Newspaper Columnists awards, and the Reporters and Editors Award. Mary Trammell is the Editor-in-Chief, Jonathan Wells is the Publisher, John Yemma is the Editor and Marshall Ingwerson is the Managing Editor.

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Articles from September 22, 2000

While much of the world is going (via satellite TV) to Australia each night to witness the spectacular athleticism of the 2000 summer Olympics, a group of 16 "Upstart Aussies" is making the rounds here in the United States with a quite different agenda....

They used to call it - rather boastfully - the longest undefended border in the world. That was then. Before epidemic drug use. Before waves of desperate foreign nationals began mortgaging their futures to criminal syndicates, which today collect...

When Mohammad Kalaldeh, Jordan's minister of transport, visited Baghdad early this month for the first time in five years, he was disturbed by what he calls the "annihilation" of the Iraqi people. "To see people having to sell the hinges and handles...

Is America's dream factory set to implode? The cost of making movies is soaring while box-office revenues are sinking. Several major theater chains are in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. A major actors' strike is looming, which could make theaters go dark...

Happy amazement prevails that so many good reader-folks related to my recent revelation that I am kin to Prince Edward Island, the wee one of the 10 Canadian provinces. All who responded told of happy times on "thee yigh-land" and one way or another...

President Clinton is moonlighting again this weekend. While his day job may be running the country, nights and weekends he's busy at his second occupation: raising cash for the Democrats. For him, it's the next best thing to campaigning. For the party,...

Some say Paula Poundstone's best moments are in her HBO specials. Others point to the comedian's trademark voice when in 1997 she did ABC's acclaimed animated series, "Squigglevision." Devoted Poundstone fans insist that her backstage commentary to...

NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY Hey, guys! Are you sensitive? Vulnerable, yet charismatic? Then you could be a movie star - even if you didn't even so much as understudy for a role in the senior play in high school. No, really. The director Roman Polanski...

In Chicago last month, 4,500 public-health specialists held a World Conference on Tobacco and Health, sharing the latest knowledge on cigarettes and disease. They cited global statistics indicating that tobacco kills someone every 8 seconds, amounting...

When French President Jacques Chirac called next Sunday's referendum on whether to shorten the presidential term from seven years to five, he clearly had a personal reason: He stands a better chance of reelection to a shorter term, given his advancing...

Frenchwoman Marie-Jose Perec, a three-time Olympic track champion so reclusive and mysterious she's been dubbed the "Greta Garbo of athletics," withdrew from the Sydney Games and a chance at history. Perec, two-time defending champion in the 400 meters...

Mayday! All hands on deck! The night of the long knives is here! At least, that's how it sounded last week when the Federal Trade Commission accused the entertainment industry of - brace yourselves - marketing violence to America's young people. ...

No matter who is declared the winner of the elections in Yugoslavia this weekend, President Slobodan Milosevic's main challenger, Vojislav Kostunica, has permanently altered the political landscape. Although independent opinion polls show Mr. Kostunica...

At a time when Europe was heading inexorably into World War II - and many in retrospect have faulted outsiders for failing to act on behalf of Europe's Jews - a little-known chapter of Anglo-European history was unfolding. Some 10,000 Jewish children...

Say what you will about Danish director Lars von Trier, but you have to admit he's full of surprises. His latest film, "Dancer in the Dark," is a genre-bending extravaganza that can only be described as a musical tragedy. It stars the pop-music icon...

Flush from a victory on the China trade bill, the business community is wasting no time in pushing Congress to move on its next major area of concern: the high-tech labor shortage. If the Senate takes up a foreign-worker bill - a decision it is ...

It's rare that an award ceremony should be cause for alarm. But the third annual Golden Marble Awards, the advertising industry's celebration of successful marketing to children, ought to worry anyone concerned about our children's well-being. This...

How did an appalling article about wrestling alligators ("Paging Captain Hook" Sept. 19) rate so prominently on the front page! This distasteful entertainment activity recalls a time when "people who lived deep in the Everglades ... needed fresh alligator...

How many movies do you see every week?" It's one of the questions I'm most often asked about my work as a film critic. And it's one I can't answer ... because I've never dared calculate the number! I think of myself as averaging about a movie a day,...

Not much keeps opera mega-star Plcido Domingo awake at nights. Indeed, the peripatetic tenor travels so widely it may be hard for him to keep track of night and day. But the challenge of his latest role, that of artistic director of the Los Angeles...

Each night Kim Rosenthal, a New York veterinarian, sits down on the couch with her two children to watch the Olympics. But while she's not reaching for the remote, she feels like something's missing: coverage. "I just think it's sad we don't see...

Compassion and courage don't often make headlines in the Middle East. The more familiar portrait is that of a region riven by hatred between Jews and Arabs, of families shattered by wars and terrorist bombs and fundamentalist zeal. But there's a hunger...

Malik wonders where his daddy is. He's a "big boy." He sees his grandpa and his uncles and aunts sitting in the living room. They cradle his daddy's photo and tell stories. This makes two-year-old Malik feel funny and he hides his face in his mommy's...

One of the most significant programs likely to screen on TV this season is Debating Our Destiny: 40 Years of Presidential Debates (PBS, Sept. 24, 9-11 p.m., check local listings). If anyone doubts the power of television, here is certain proof of...

Some Cuban-American lawmakers and organizations, including the exile group Mothers Against Repression, began lobbying for the Cuban survivors of a plane crash in the Gulf of Mexico to be granted US residency. Eight of the survivors, who initially...

When watching the Olympics, I sometimes root for people or teams because they come from my own country. But more often, I cheer for a particular person, irrespective of his or her home country. My enthusiasm is based on the sportsmanlike qualities...

The main challenger to Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic drew an estimated 150,000 people to a campaign rally in Belgrade - more than 10 times the number who showed up for an appearance by the hard-line leader a short distance away. Vojislav Kostunica...

The Olympics are all about sport. They're also about a lot more. For all the enormous work the Australian government and the people did to get the Olympics here and build the facilities, the true glory in this nation is its people. For all the...